ETF comparison
BLV vs FBND
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · Fidelity Total Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
136 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BLV and FBND would leave roughly 12.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
BLV is 33 bps cheaper than FBND. On a $100,000 position that's about $330/yr more in fees for FBND.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with BLV vs FBND.
Top shared holdings
136 shared in total| # | Holding | In BLV | In FBND | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.14% | 1.26% | 1.14% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.17% | 1.12% | 1.12% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.08% | 1.53% | 1.08% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.15% | 1.04% | 1.04% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.97% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.86% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.06% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.13% | 0.82% | 0.82% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.08% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.80% | 0.60% | 0.60% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.96% | 0.47% | 0.47% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.13% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
Only in BLV
2,847 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.85%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.84%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.79%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.64%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.63%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.63%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.62%
Only in FBND
4,333 total- Fidelity Revere Street Trust 4.62%
- UST NOTES 2.34%
- UST NOTES 2.21%
- UST NOTES 2.17%
- UST NOTES 1.81%
- UST NOTES 1.49%
- UST NOTES 1.20%
- FNMA/FHLG TBA ISSUER 1.19%
- UST NOTES 1.18%
- GNMA II GTD PASS THRU CTF MULTIPLE ISSUER 1.14%
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- BLV vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 12.1%
- BLV vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 7.7%
- BLV vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 7.4%
- BLV vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 7.2%
- BLV vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 3.8%
- BLV vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 1.2%
More comparisons with FBND
- FBND vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 12.0%
- FBND vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 11.6%
- FBND vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 9.5%
- FBND vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 8.3%
- FBND vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 6.7%
- FBND vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 5.6%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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